The Nursery

Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea Tricolor’ with striking colored leaves: purple/pink & shades of white/green; spectacular specimen tree. Fagus sylvatica ‘Red Obelisk’ with statuesque columnar form and burgundy leaves. Fagus sylvatica ‘Dawyck Purple’ similar to ‘Red Obelisk’ not as columnar and leaves green out in late summer.

Cladrastis Kentuckea with yellow hanging flower clusters in late May on a smooth bark shade tree for sun.

Has fluffy, cream colored clusters of flowers in June. A tree to 25ft and grows quickly, the shiny maroon bark is attractive in the winter.

With exfoliating cinnamon-rust-beige colored bark is a small tree to 20ft. Colored fall foliage.

Weeping Flowering Cherry – several varieties: Prunus ‘Snowfozam’ ‘Rosea’, and ‘White Fountain’ with graceful weeping branches of white or pink flowers in early spring, and yellow fall color.

A very narrow very tall growing ornamental tree with star shaped leaves offering stunning fall colors in orange, yellow and red tones perfect for a garden accent or narrow tall tree hedge. 

A showy narrow uniform columnar form crabapple perfect for tight spaces. Ivory Spear boasts white flowers with green summer leaves, bright with a touch of yellow in the fall color. Raspberry Spear has bright magenta flowers, a dark green/purple foliage which shows some bronzing on older leaves in late summer/early fall with orange tints in fall. Both have deep bright red berrys that persist into late autumn. (Photo from Frank Schmidt grower website)